Edmund Burke
Ireland
12 Jan 1729 // 9 Jul 1797
Statesman / Author / Orator/ Philosopher
12 Jan 1729 // 9 Jul 1797
Statesman / Author / Orator/ Philosopher
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Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind
Philosophy is the queen of arts, and daughter of heaven
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting
Poetry is the art of substituting shadows, and of lending existence to nothing
Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies
Our patience will achieve more than our force
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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